I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

There are just some things that are outside of comprehension, even if we can quantify them. At some point, science becomes magic.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

Islam wants to destroy us and I want to prevent it.

I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters... yet people are trying to pull me down.

If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen.

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.